Scentbird data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2020 breach of Scentbird. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Scentbird data breach exposed 5,814,988 accounts from scentbird.com in June 2020. The data taken includes passwords, dates of birth, names and email addresses and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 30 Jul 2020, 1 month later. It is the 184th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Scentbird’s breach included 6 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Password strengths | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Scentbird among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Scentbird password.If the account still exists, sign in at Scentbird (scentbird.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Scentbird.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- Tokopedia, April 2020, 71 million accounts
- bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
- Dave, June 2020, 3 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Scentbird”, Have I Been Pwned, added 30 Jul 2020. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- scentbird.com, Scentbird’s website